Johannes Dimon and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 September 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinirch Niemann.
His wife died, and Johannes remarried to Walpurga, the widow of Anton Regner. She also died, and Johannes remarried to Barbara.
Johannes Timant [sic], a farmer, his wife Barbara, son Georg (age 16), and stepsons (Andreas Regner, age 12; Anton Regner, age 11) are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (Household No. 116) appended to the 1767 census of the Volga German coloniesalong with a note that they relocated to the colony of Luzern in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Dimon came from the German region of Rehbach.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Dimon family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 372.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7195.
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